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Ottawa might not be known as a foodie capital, but there is no doubt that there is something of a food culture living below the surface of our city. A world-class culinary school and top-notch restaurants certainly help, but the lifeblood of any foodie community (and we hope any community really) is its bloggers - an area where Ottawa is excelling!
The institution of Food Blogging has really taken off - I’ve followed about ten new ones since watching Julie and Julia alone. In my Google Reader list there are a couple of local Ottawa folks who I keep going back to. This list is in no way comprehensive! I’ll add your suggestions to my feed reader and do another post on this ASAP.
Honourable mentions for online food enthusiasm must go to Ron Eade at the Ottawa Citizen and whoever is behind Ottawa Foodies, the go-to resource for many looking for user reviews of Ottawa restaurants and markets.
foodiePrints - Don and team at foodiePrints put out a pile of great content, talking restaurants, cooking and generally being great food community members. He also runs the elite brunch club, who are tasting the best that the morning shift has to offer. They also seem to be a bit obsessed with Pho over there.
le jeune gourmand - Dominic Maggiolo is le jeune gourmand and runs the beautiful blog i eat, i write. He’s also a sometimes-contributor to Apartment613, adding his foodie credibility to our site.
Whisk - Shari from Whisk started blogging her way through Le Cordon Bleu cookbooks, then curriculum, and also writes about food and wine for the Metro. Her blog is really pretty and the photos make it feel like a glossy food magazine.
Let us know your favourites in the comments!
Holla Ron Eade, Ottawa Foodies, foodiePrints -
Pearl Pirie’s blog, Eaten Up: http://www.pagehalffull.com/eatenup/
Thanks for the mention! Honoured to be included in a blog post with Ron Eade and Shari Goodman (Metro Ottawa’s Urban Foodie)!
We maintain a list of Ottawa Food Bloggers on foodiePrints: http://www.foodieprints.com/item/1622
Besides Eaten Up, which Amanda mentioned above, here are some other notables:
After the Harvest: http://aftertheharvest.blogspot.com/
Lord of the Wings: http://lordofthewings.blogspot.com/
Rachelle Eats Food: http://rachelleeatsfood.blogspot.com/
Simply Fresh: http://simplyfreshottawa.wordpress.com/
I really like Rachelle Eats Food.
http://rachelleeatsfood.blogspot.com/
She is classy, thoughtful and respectful. No in your face personality. No dumb self-centred comments. She is my favourite in Ottawa.
Guess my comment didn’t make it the first time around.
Anyhow, thanks for the mention!
I second Anne’s suggestion of Rachelle’s Rachelle Eats Food. An inspiring blogger, her is also one of my favourite Ottawa food blogs.
Besides Pearl’s Eaten Up, here are some other notables:
Simply Fresh: http://simplyfreshottawa.wordpress.com/
She Eats Bears: http://sheeatsbears.blogspot.com/
Lord of the Wings: http://lordofthewings.blogspot.com/
Definitely Not Martha: http://definitelynotmartha.blogspot.com/
We keep a list of Ottawa Food Blogs, freshly updated to include Dominic Maggiolo’s.
http://www.foodieprints.com/item/1622
Thanks for including me! Here are some others I love to check in with:
Definitely Not Martha: http://definitelynotmartha.blogspot.com/
Eva’s Food World: http://foodworld-eva.blogspot.com/
Plum Cake: http://www.plum-cake.com/
Rachelle Eats Food: http://rachelleeatsfood.blogspot.com/
She Eats Bears: http://sheeatsbears.blogspot.com/
Sticky Fingers: http://stickyfingers-ottawa.blogspot.com/
Thank you very much for your kind endorsement. Of course, my motive is to provide as much timely and informative foodie content as possible, with an entertaining twist.
Don, your post got caught in our spam filter because of all the links you posted (the system doesn’t always work as it should). Anyway, it’s up now!
Ottawa IS known as a foodie capital…
Thanks for using my picture! If anyone is interested in my blog it is all about vegan/vegetarian food, and contains a lot of posts relating to eating vegetarian food in Ottawa, too!
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It ain’t meat babe is a great one too: http://itaintmeatbabe.blogspot.com/
I think not including a mention of the blog where your photo came from might have been a bit of an oversight…
It Ain’t Meat, Babe: http://itaintmeatbabe.blogspot.com
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Another good one:
http://befoodled.blogspot.com
Wow! Thanks Don, Anne and Shari for the mention!
Enjoy cool party ideas and vegan recipes with this local veggie eater:
http://www.vegansoiree.com/
One that was not yet mentioned: http://befoodled.blogspot.com/
I really enjoy reading Asha, her recipes are inspiring and she updates often…
Thank you all for suggesting blogs, more to discover! And thank you Don and Shari for thinking of me!!
Thank you for the kind words about my blog. I am a big fan of Marysol at She Eats Bears: http://sheeatsbears.blogspot.com. Her blog is lovely and whimsical, and her photos are charming. And Rachelle Eats Food because she writes so well and posts so often: http://rachelleeatsfood.blogspot.com/. You must also check out Ottawa Foodies: http://ottawafoodies.com. It’s a wonderful community site by Mark Warburton and the collective voice of all Ottawa’s hungry foodies!
Thanks for all the yummy comments folks! I can feel a Food Blogger post redux coming on… perhaps a vegan theme?
Food blogging has become insanely saturated and cliché with too many RSS-feed taught cooks and not enough chefs. It has taken on a quasi-authoritative form somewhere in the fueling of Ottawa’s current foodie fad craze. The attention should be put on the few who are skillfully creative and manage to arouse our palates through memorable surprises at local eateries. Let the food do the talking, not the bloggers. The glebe doesn’t need anymore kitchen fires.
Amen, Joe Blobs.
After a few years of blogging it is nice to find other local foodies. It will inspire me to get back at it.
http://vanillabeancafe.blogspot.com/
Okay so my two favourite food blogs are http://www.foodieprints.com (Don and Jenn) and the lemon kitchen http://ottawafood.wordpress.com
Definite favourte:
Kely Brisson of NOSHFood
http://noshfood.tumblr.com/